After the first several weeks of the 2023-24 National Lacrosse League season are complete, The Lax Mag will publish a weekly NLL Player Ranking, examining the league’s Top 30 players from Week 1 right up until the end of the regular season.

TLM’s Top 30 NLL Player Rankings have nothing to do with reputations, career resumes, success in past seasons, whether we know a player personally, recognizing deserving players who’ve previously been passed over, player popularity, the size of their social media following, whether you slide into their DMs, or who others around the league tell us should get hype.

Our rankings, which only take into consideration a player’s performance for the current regular season, will be calculated using both our star-rating system after each game, but also a player’s season-long statistical position (based on per-game averages) across the league (more on both breakdowns below). Only players who have played two-thirds of their team’s games or more will qualify.

Click here for an even more in-depth breakdown of our scoring system.

Bob Watson and Colin Doyle, Toronto Rock (Photo: Christian Bender)

Earlier this week, the 3-8 Toronto Rock went into full sell mode, dealing the likes of Chris Corbeil, Mitch de Snoo, and somewhat shockingly, highly regarded and respected goaltender Nick Rose.

Acquired by the Rock during the 2012 season from the Calgary Roughnecks, the same team he was sent to this week, few goalies have played the amount of minutes for a team as Rose has for the Rock over the last several seasons.

In fact, few players in NLL history have played as many games for one franchise as Rose did with Toronto. While Colin Doyle still holds the record for most regular season & playoff games played for the Rock franchise, last weekend, Rose tied fellow all-time franchise shot stopper Bob Watson, both registering 209 combined regular & post-season games for the team over their careers.

In this week’s NLL Player Rankings, we review the past & present players that have played the most games for a single franchise going back to the league’s Year 1 in 1987 and all the way up to this past weekend.

Below at the Top 30 players who’ve played the most combined regular season & playoff games for one franchise during their NLL careers, and even further below is our updated weekly NLL TOP 30 Player Rankings.

Legend

Career: Full NLL career
Team: Most seasons played for a single franchise
Other: Other franchise(s) played for
Regular Season: GP for that single franchise during the regular season
Playoffs: GP for that single franchise during the playoffs
Totals: Regular season + playoffs GP combined
ACTIVE = Still playing in NLL
💯 = Played for the same franchise entire career

John Tavares

Career: 1992-2015
Buffalo Bandits: 1992-2015 💯
Regular Season: 306
Playoffs: 38
Total: 344

Mark Steenhuis

Career: 2002-2018
Buffalo Bandits: 2003-2018
Other: Columbus Landsharks
Regular Season: 254
Playoffs: 29
Total: 283

Steve Priolo

Career: 2010-2025 ACTIVE
Buffalo Bandits: 2010-2025 💯
Regular Season: 227
Playoffs: 32
Total: 259

Colin Doyle

Career: 1998-2016
Ontario Raiders/Toronto Rock: 1998-2006, 2010-2016
Other: San Jose Stealth
Regular Season: 218
Playoffs: 29
Total: 247

Cody Jamieson

Career: 2011-2025 ACTIVE
Rochester Knighthawks/Halifax Thunderbirds: 2011-2025 💯
Regular Season: 209
Playoffs: 23
Total: 232

Bob Watson

Career: 1996-2011
Ontario Raiders/Toronto Rock: 1998-2011
Other: Baltimore Thunder
Regular Season: 208
Playoffs: 21
Total: 229

Nick Rose

Career: 2010-2025 ACTIVE
Toronto Rock: 2012-2025
Other: Boston Blazers, Calgary Roughnecks
Regular Season: 206
Playoffs: 23
Total: 229

Andrew McBride

Career: 2003-2015
Calgary Roughnecks: 2003-2015 💯
Regular Season: 198
Playoffs: 29
Total: 227

Curtis Hodgson

Career: 2005-2017
San Jose Stealth/Washington Stealth/Vancouver Stealth: 2005-2017 💯
Regular Season: 211
Playoffs: 15
Total: 226

Rich Kilgour

Career: 1992-2009
Buffalo Bandits: 1992-2009 💯
Regular Season: 200
Playoffs: 25
Total: 225

Dane Dobbie

Career: 2008-2025 ACTIVE
Calgary Roughnecks: 2008-2020, 2025
Other: San Diego Seals
Regular Season: 192
Playoffs: 29
Total: 221

Jordan MacIntosh

Career: 2012-2025 ACTIVE
Minnesota Swarm/Georgia Swarm: 2012-2025 💯
Regular Season: 208
Playoffs: 12
Total: 220

Sandy Chapman

Career: 2002-2018
Toronto Rock: 2002-2005, 2010-2018
Other: Rochester Knighthawks
Regular Season: 194
Playoffs: 25
Total: 219

Dhane Smith

Career: 2013-2025 ACTIVE
Buffalo Bandits: 2013-2025 💯
Regular Season: 188
Playoffs: 30
Total: 218

Billy Dee Smith

Career: 2003-2019
Buffalo Bandits: 2003-2017
Other: Rochester Knighthawks
Regular Season: 192
Playoffs: 25
Total: 217

Regy Thorpe

Career: 1995-2009
Rochester Knighthawks: 1995-2009 💯
Regular Season: 193
Playoffs: 24
Total: 217

Curtis Dickson

Career: 2011-2025 ACTIVE
Calgary Roughnecks: 2011-2022, 2025
Other: San Diego Seals
Regular Season: 188
Playoffs: 25
Total: 213

Shayne Jackson

Career: 2013-2025 ACTIVE
Minnesota Swarm/Georgia Swarm: 2013-2025 💯
Regular Season: 199
Playoffs: 10
Total: 209

John Gallant

Career: 2002-2015
Washington Power/Colorado Mammoth: 2002-2015 💯
Regular Season: 196
Playoffs: 13
Total: 209

Jeff Shattler

Career: 2006-2022
Calgary Roughnecks: 2007-2017
Other: Buffalo Bandits, Saskatchewan Rush
Regular Season: 183
Playoffs: 26
Total: 209

Mike Carnegie

Career: 2008-2020
Calgary Roughnecks: 2008-2019
Other: San Diego Seals
Regular Season: 182
Playoffs: 27
Total: 209

Kyle Rubisch

Career: 2011-2025
Edmonton Rush/Saskatchewan Rush: 2012-2023
Other: Boston Blazers, San Diego Seals
Regular Season: 183
Playoffs: 25
Total: 208

Matt Beers

Career: 2010-2025 ACTIVE
Washington Stealth/Vancouver Stealth/Vancouver Warriors: 2010-2020, 2024-2025
Other: Saskatchewan Rush
Regular Season: 193
Playoffs: 10
Total: 203

Brett Manney

Career: 2009-2023
Philadelphia Wings/New England Black Wolves/Albany FireWolves: 2011-2023
Other: San Jose Stealth/Washington Stealth
Regular Season: 192
Playoffs: 9
Total: 201

Dillon Ward

Career: 2014-2025 ACTIVE
Colorado Mammoth: 2014-2025 💯
Regular Season: 178
Playoffs: 23
Total: 201

Blaine Manning

Career: 2002-2013
Toronto Rock: 2002-2013 💯
Regular Season: 181
Playoffs: 18
Total: 199

Robert Church

Career: 2014-2025 ACTIVE
Edmonton Rush/Saskatchewan Rush: 2014-2025 💯
Regular Season: 178
Playoffs: 20
Total: 198

Brett Mydske

Career: 2010-2025 ACTIVE
Edmonton Rush/Saskatchewan Rush: 2010-2020
Other: Vancouver Warriors
Regular Season: 170
Playoffs: 27
Total: 197

Curtis Manning

Career: 2010-2023
Calgary Roughnecks: 2010-2023 💯
Regular Season: 168
Playoffs: 29
Total: 197

Mark Matthews

Career: 2013-2025 ACTIVE
Edmonton Rush/Saskatchewan Rush: 2013-2023
Other: Toronto Rock
Regular Season: 170
Playoffs: 22
Total: 170

Dhane Smith, Buffalo Bandits (Photo: Alexis Goeller)

One of the highest active players listed above (14th overall), as he has all season long, Dhane Smith still sits #1 on our updated NLL TOP 30 leaderboard below. Kyle Rubisch, who at least last week was sill on San Diego’s IR, was removed from this week’s Top 30 after failing to play in two-thirds of the Seals game (see our ranking criteria here), while Holden Cattoni, Clarke Petterson and Dillon Ward were dropped to make room for Ryan Terefenko, Robert Church, Ryan Dilks and Ian MacKay.

NLL TOP 30: WEEK 14

1. (1) Dhane Smith, Buffalo (F)
2. (2) Zach Higgins, Ottawa (G)
3. (3) Mitch Jones, Philadelphia (F)
4. (4) Josh Byrne, Buffalo (F)
5. (7) Curtis Dickson, Calgary (F)
6. (6) Joe Resetarits, Philadelphia (F)
7. (5) Zach Currier, San Diego (T)
8. (8) Robert Hope, Colorado (D)
9. (12) Randy Staats, Halifax (F)
10. (13) Connor Fields, Rochester (F)
11. (9) Matt Vinc, Buffalo (G)
12. (10) Jesse King, Calgary (F)
13. (16) Lyle Thompson, Georgia (F)
14. (11) Alex Simmons, Albany (F)
15. (19) Owen Grant, Vancouver (T)
16. (22) Ryan Lanchbury, Rochester (F)
17. (18) Zach Manns, Saskatchewan (F)
18. (20) Jake Boudreau, Saskatchewan (T)
19. (24) Matt Hossack, Saskatchewan (D)
20. (25) Mitch de Snoo, Philadelphia (D)
21. (26) Jake Withers, Halifax (D)
22. (21) Aden Walsh, Vancouver (G)
23. (29) Jack Hannah, Las Vegas (F)
24. (30) Jeff Teat, Ottawa (F)
25. (15) Connor Kelly, Colorado (F)
26. (27) Dane Dobbie, Calgary (F)
27. (NR) Ryan Terefenko, Halifax (T)
28. (NR) Robert Church, Saskatchewan (F)
29. (NR) Ryan Dilks, Vancouver (D)
30. (NR) Ian MacKay, Buffalo (T/F)

NLL Player Rankings: The most games played for one franchise